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On Forest Close, in Hoylake
What it's like at CH47 6BA: every home that has sold on Forest Close since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Forest Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 14 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Forest CloseDetached | Jun 2002 | £230,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Forest CloseDetached | Feb 2025 | £620,000 | 130 m² | £4,769/m² | 1 |
| 4, Forest CloseDetached | Oct 2025 | £538,000 | 183 m² | £2,940/m² | 3 |
| 5, Forest CloseSemi-detached | Jan 2019 | £499,995 | 131 m² | £3,817/m² | 2 |
| 6, Forest CloseDetached | Mar 2013 | £310,000 | 111 m² | £2,793/m² | 3 |
| 8, Forest CloseDetached | Nov 2017 | £375,000 | 133 m² | £2,820/m² | 2 |
| 9, Forest CloseDetached | Aug 1996 | £147,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 10, Forest CloseDetached | Jul 2014 | £324,950 | 119 m² | £2,731/m² | 1 |
| 11, Forest CloseDetached | Jun 2002 | £218,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Forest CloseSemi-detached | Dec 2001 | £175,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Forest CloseDetached | Jan 2022 | £450,000 | 142 m² | £3,169/m² | 1 |
| 17, Forest CloseDetached | Nov 2012 | £331,000 | 150 m² | £2,207/m² | 1 |
| 19, Forest CloseDetached | Jul 2010 | £295,000 | 116 m² | £2,543/m² | 1 |
| 21, Forest CloseDetached | Apr 2009 | £282,500 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Meols, about a 10-minute walk (650 m), with 414k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Central.
The nearest bus stop is Banks Avenue, 250 m away, with a bus about every 10 minutes on weekdays (routes 407, 38, 628, 614); 24 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Great Meols Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 75% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is West Kirby Grammar School, 3.1 km away; Attainment 8: 71.3 · 45.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: West Kirby Grammar School (1.9 km) and Calday Grange Grammar School (3.1 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Morrisons Daily, 550 m away; Hoylake Shop N Drive (800 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Hoylake & Meols Medical Ctr (550 m), with Exel Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (550 m).
For a haircut, The Cutting Station is 550 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Arrowe Park Hospital, 5.9 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 43% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 65% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 32 restaurants and cafés and 11 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Heima Coffee is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and Railway Inn the nearest pub (200 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Much of it is protected: 31% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Meols Drive Conservation Area, The Kings Gap Conservation Area).
There are 10 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 27% flats and 15% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1919-1929.
The nearest park is Meols Park, 350 m away; for exercise, RK Health & Fitness (1.2 km).
The beach is on your doorstep: Meols, 1.7 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 4.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 23 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 60 km.
20 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Wirral West constituency: Matthew Patrick MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 9,998 (20.0%), turnout 69%. Vote shares: Labour 46%, Conservative 26%, Reform UK 13%, Green Party 8%.
5 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near CH47 6BA →
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Neighbours tend to stay put: 44% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 45% of adults have a degree.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
On this street: 0 of 9 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.8% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 92.6% | 94.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.4% | 4.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.8% | 0.4% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Nantwich Leisure Centre · about 59 min
Nearest: Southport Pier · about 56 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 14 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.